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title: 'Chief of Staff at Traysar'
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# Chief of Staff at Traysar

- **Company:** Traysar
- **Location:** Austin, TX
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-05-13
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/traysar/d764ddd3-5b28-469a-adc7-7ca920056b6f

## Job description

## About Traysar

Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Traysar is the world’s first subterra defense tech company. Through breakthroughs in military boring and subterranean autonomous systems, Traysar transforms the Earth’s crust into a three-dimensional maneuver space - enabling a new class of strike capabilities against previously unreachable targets and rapid underground protection of critical infrastructure for the United States and its allies. Traysar is backed by Lux Capital, Craft and Silent Ventures among notable angel investors including Steve Blank, the founders of Anduril, and early SpaceX engineers. For more information visit www.traysar.com . / x.com/traysartech Job Summary We’re looking for a Chief of Staff to work directly with Traysar’s founding team as a strategic operator, force multiplier, and problem-solver. This is not a staff role — it’s a frontline position at the center of everything we do: engineering, operations, business development, government relations, and finance. You’ll drive the most important initiatives across the company, ensure the founders’ time is spent on what matters most, and fill whatever gaps need filling on any given day. This is an opportunistic, high-trust role for someone who can turn chaos into execution: if Traysar needs to run a desert demo in one week, coordinate a manufacturing push across Israel and Austin, organize a DC stakeholder meeting, or pull together a talent event around a SpaceX launch, you are the person who makes it happen end-to-end. Traysar is building category-defining technology for underground warfare — a domain that every Western military is waking up to. The pace is intense, the stakes are real, and the ambiguity is constant. If you thrive when the playbook doesn’t exist yet, this is your role.

## Responsibilities

- Serve as a strategic thought partner to the co-founders, providing decision support on company priorities, resource allocation, and execution strategy
- Own and drive high-priority cross-functional initiatives end-to-end — from defense procurement processes and manufacturing timelines to fundraising preparation and investor communications
- Manage the operating rhythm of the company: leadership meetings, OKRs, internal communications, and accountability structures
- Act as a bridge between engineering, operations, BD, and finance teams — ensuring alignment and removing blockers
- Represent the founders in meetings with defense ministry officials, military stakeholders, and government agencies when needed
- Lead special projects with speed and autonomy — the kind of high-stakes, ambiguous work that doesn’t fit neatly into any single function, whether that means organizing a desert demo on one week’s notice, coordinating a manufacturing push across continents, or pulling together a strategic talent event around a major aerospace launch
- Spearhead key hiring initiatives for critical roles across engineering, operations, business development, and leadership — from identifying talent gaps to sourcing, coordinating, and closing exceptional candidates
- Lead thought leadership and ecosystem-building efforts, including organizing industry conferences, private roundtables, technical demos, and events that position Traysar as the defining company in underground warfare
- Own high-urgency, opportunistic missions end-to-end — from field demonstrations and customer visits to manufacturing pushes, investor moments, and strategic events with little notice and no playbook
- Coordinate execution across Traysar’s distributed footprint, including frequent travel between R&D, manufacturing, customer, and government-facing sites in Israel, Austin, Washington, DC, and other key locations
- Plan and execute unconventional founder-led initiatives, including talent acquisition events, defense community gatherings, live demonstrations, site visits, and high-leverage moments around major industry or aerospace events
- Build and maintain relationships with key external stakeholders: investors, defense primes, partners, and advisors
- Streamline internal processes and identify operational bottlenecks before they become problems
- Filter and prioritize inbound opportunities, requests, and information flow to the founders
- Support hiring, onboarding, and culture-building as the team scales from early-stage to growth

## Basic Qualifications

- 3-7 years of experience in management consulting, investment banking, military service officer-level, operations, or a comparable high-intensity role
- Demonstrated ability to manage complex, multi-stakeholder projects and deliver results under pressure
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills in English
- Comfort operating in extreme ambiguity — you build the plane while flying it
- Proven track record of getting things done across organizational boundaries without formal authority
- Ability to travel up to 50% of the time to domestic and/or international client sites and regional offices

## Preferred Skills and Experience

- Experience in defense, aerospace, or deep-tech startups
- Familiarity with Israeli and/or US defense procurement processes, including SIBAT, DSCA, FMS, or equivalent
- Background in engineering, manufacturing, or hardware-intensive environments
- Experience working directly with founders or C-suite executives in a high-growth company
- Understanding of underground infrastructure, tunneling technology, or subterranean operations is a strong plus
- Military background in combat engineering, intelligence, or technology units, including 8200, Talpiot, Yahalom, or equivalent
- Financial modeling or fundraising experience

## About Traysar

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Traysar engineers autonomous underground systems for strike and defense, aiming to secure U.S. military dominance in the subterranean domain.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed VC)
- **Headquarters**: Austin, Texas, United States
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: Yadin Soffer (CEO), Asher Katz, Gilad Adin

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Defense technology, autonomous systems, subterranean warfare, military robotics
- **Target customers**: U.S. Department of Defense, allied military forces, government and defense-sector customers
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To transform the Earth’s crust into a three-dimensional maneuver space, exposing subterranean threats and equipping the armies of the free world to fight in the underground domain.

## Products & Services
- **Autonomous Tunnel Breaching & Tactical Exploration Platform**: An excavator-class autonomous platform that rapidly navigates, maps, and clears contested underground networks.
- **High-Speed Rapid-Burrowing Autonomous Platform**: Creates precision subterranean access points and delivers critical payloads beneath the surface.
- **Subterra Systems for Strike & Defense**: Full-spectrum capabilities including autonomy, persistent communications, mapping & localization, underground intelligence, distributed infrastructure, and geological intelligence.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding — $25M (Seed round, raised as of June 2026)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Led by Silent Ventures; joined by Lux Capital, Ora Global, NeverLift VC, Mana, Impatient Ventures, New Vista Capital, Entree Capital, and strategic angel investors including Steve Blank, and founders from Anduril and Erebor among others.
- **Growth Signals**: Emerged from stealth at the 2026 Reindustrialize Summit; founded in 2025 and already raised a $25M seed round; engineering team includes early engineers from SpaceX and The Boring Company.

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-mover in a new domain**: Traysar is positioning itself as the world’s first "subterra defense tech company," addressing a massive capability gap in subterranean warfare that the global defense industry has largely ignored.
- **Unique technology stack**: Combines military boring, autonomous navigation in GPS-denied environments, and real-time underground mapping — capabilities that are extremely difficult to replicate.
- **Strong founder pedigree**: Co-founders and early engineers come from SpaceX, The Boring Company, Anduril, and other elite defense/engineering organizations.
- **Clear strategic relevance**: Addresses a documented threat — the U.S. Army estimates more than 10,000 known military facilities are hidden underground worldwide.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Developing and fielding autonomous platforms for subterranean maneuver and infrastructure survivability; building a complete suite of Subterra systems for strike, defense, protection, and denial operations.
- **Direction for growth**: Expanding from seed stage to operational deployment with the U.S. military and allied forces; hardening critical infrastructure and preserving logistical continuity under attack.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven work**: The company describes itself as working on "the 21st century’s most important problem" — securing military dominance in a new domain.
- **Elite engineering culture**: The team includes early engineers from SpaceX and The Boring Company, suggesting a high-caliber, fast-paced, and technically challenging environment.
- **Early-stage impact**: As a seed-stage company founded in 2025, employees have the opportunity to shape the technology and culture from the ground up.
- **Location**: Headquartered in Austin, Texas, a growing tech and defense hub.
- **Notable perks**: Not explicitly stated, but the culture emphasizes working with "the best engineers" on a critical national security mission. The careers page ([jobs.ashbyhq.com/traysar](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/traysar)) lists current openings for further details on specific roles and benefits.

## Sources
1. [traysar.com](https://traysar.com)
2. [traysar.com/news](https://traysar.com/news/traysar-raises-25m-seed)
3. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/traysar)
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/traysar-industries)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/traysar)

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